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Definition: Pyramid |
PyramidNoun1. A polyhedron having a polygonal base and triangular sides with a common vertex. 2. A massive memorial with a square base and four triangular sides; built as royal tombs in ancient Egypt. Verb1. Enlarge one's holdings on an exchange on a continued rise by using paper profits as margin to buy additional amounts. 2. Use or deal in (as of stock or commercial transaction) in a pyramid deal. 3. Arrange or build up as if on the base of a pyramid. 4. Increase rapidly and progressively step by step on a broad base. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "pyramid" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1532. (references) |
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Dream Interpretation | To dream of pyramids, denotes that many changes will come to you. If you scale them, you will journey along before you find the gratification of desires. For the young woman, it prognosticates a husband who is in no sense congenial. To dream that you are studying the mystery of the ancient pyramids, denotes that you will develop a love for the mysteries of nature, and you will become learned and polished. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Food & Agriculture | A tree grown or trained in pyramidal form. Source: European Union. (references) |
Literature | Pyramid The largest is that of Cholula, in Mexico, which covers fifty acres of ground. The largest in Egypt is that of Cheops, near Cairo, which covers thirteen acres. Sir William Tite tells us it contains ninety million cubic feet of stone, and could not be now built for less than thirty millions of money (sterling). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Mining | An open crystal form consisting of nonparallel faces that intersect the c crystallographic axis and consist of three (trigonal), four (tetragonal), six (ditrigonal, hexagonal), or eight (ditetragonal) faces meeting at apoint. CF:bipyramid; hemipyramid; dome. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The Great Pyramid of Giza, one of the Seven Wonders of the World and the most famous pyramid in the world, served as a tomb for the 4th dynasty Egyptian Pharaoh Khufu (also known under his Greek name Cheops).
The estimated date of its completion is 2570 BC and it is the earliest and largest of the three great pyramids in the Giza necropolis on the outskirts of modern Cairo, Egypt.
Description
Great Pyramid of Giza
19th century stereopticon card photo''South-west of Khufu's Great Pyramid lies the pyramid of Khafre, one of Khufu's successors who also built the Sphinx, and further south-west there's the pyramid of Menkaure, Khafre's successor. Both of these are smaller than Khufu's pyramid, even though Khafre's appears taller on some photographs as it is somewhat steeper and built on higher terrain.
The Great Pyramid is 137 metress (481 feet) tall, covering more than 5.5 hectares (13.5 acres) at the base, which is a square of over 235 metres (775 feet) on each side. For over 4000 years it was the tallest man-made structure in the world, being taken over by the 143 metres tall minster of Strasbourg in 1439. The accuracy of work is such that the four sides of the base have only a mean error of 0.6 inch in length and 12 seconds in angle from a perfect square. The sides of the square are aligned quite precisely in North-South respectively East-West direction. The sides of the pyramid rise at an angle of 51 degrees and 51 minutes.
The pyramid was constructed of limestone, basalt, and granite stones from two to four tonnes in weight each, adding up to a total estimated weight of some 7 million tonnes, and a volume of 2,600,600 cubic metress. It is the largest Egyptian pyramid. (The Great Pyramid of Cholula, in Mexico is larger in volume.) When originally built, the pyramid had inset facing blocks of polished limestone, creating smooth sides; they have since fallen out, or been recycled for other building projects, leaving the underlying step-pyramid structure visible. (The smooth outer cover is still visible at the very top of Khafre's pyramid.)
The great pyramid differs in its internal arrangement from the other pyramids in the area. The greater number of passages and chambers, the high finish of parts of the work, and the accuracy of construction all distinguish it. The chamber which is most normal in its situation is the subterranean chamber; but this is quite unfinished, hardly more than begun. The upper chambers, called the king's and queen's, were completely hidden, the ascending passage to them having been closed by plugging blocks, which concealed the point where it branched upwards out of the roof of the long descending passage. Another passage, which in its turn branches from the ascending passage to the queen's chamber, was also completely blocked up. The object of having two highly-finished chambers in the mass may have been to receive the king and his co-regent (of whom there is some historical evidence), and there is very credible testimony to a sarcophagus having existed in the queen's chamber, as well as in the king's chamber.
On September 18, 2002, archaeologists used a remote-controlled robot to access a hitherto sealed chamber within the pyramid: the robot drilled a hole in a long-sealed door and poked a fiber-optic camera through. Unfortunately, all that was revealed was another closed door.
Since the pyramids were built, they have moved 4 kilometers south, due to the movement of the Earth's crust.
Construction
From surviving drawings etched in stone, including some attributed to workers on break, certain ideas about the construction of the Great Pyramid have emerged.
A comparatively small number of permanently employed, highly qualified and well-paid workers was augmented by large numbers of peasants from all over the empire who were conscripted during the flood period, when no agriculture was possible anyway. Construction took some 20 years.
The stone blocks were cut in a quarry nearby. They were moved with human power, drawn and pushed on sleds sliding on stone ramps which were made slippery with water. A stone ramp rose along the side of the growing pyramid; later this ramp would spiral around to the top. The most precisely cut stones were reserved for the outside. Once in place their corners were smoothened to give an almost shiny outer appearance of the pyramid.
Paranormal interest and encoded numbers
As a structure of impressive construction and mystery, the great pyramid has attracted the attention of occultists (as have many other aspects of ancient Egyptian culture). The great pyramid and the Sphinx are often alleged to have been built with mysterious ancient forces rather than human labor and/or by Atlanteans, extraterrestrials, or other mysterious creators.
It has been alleged that the dimensions and details, properly interpreted, provide prophecies of events in modern times. This theory was first proposed in the 1800s by John Taylor, who believed the pyramid had actually been constructed by the biblical Noah. Charles Piazzi Smyth, the Astronomer Royal of Scotland, later elaborated in his book Our Inheritance in the Great Pyramid. No scientific evidence has been found to support these allegations to date. Edgar Cayce was apparently sympathetic to the idea, though his convoluted language makes it difficult to be certain.
Some of those who have examined the great pyramid have made speculations regarding the ratios amongst the dimensions and angles present in the structure; one popular assertion is that the ratio of the pyramid's perimeter to its height times two (P / 2*H) gives a close approximation of the mathematical value Pi. The great pyramid is peculiar in this respect, as it is one of the few pyramids to have the necessary slope to express such a ratio, but variations in the accuracy of measurement, combined with the deterioriating condition of the structure, make such a claim difficult to verify.
Smyth also claimed that the measurements he obtained from the great pyramid indicate a unit of length, the pyramid inch, equivalent to roughly 1.01 British inches, that could have been the standard of measurement by the pyramid's architects. From this he extrapolated a number of other measurements, including the pyramid pint, the sacred cubit, and the pyramid scale of temperature. These derivations are frequently regarded by skeptics as having no scientific merit, and of being merely an artificial device for attributing numerical significance to the great pyramid's dimensions.
External Link
- Great Pyramid of Giza Research Association
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Great Pyramid of Giza."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Geometric shape
formed by connecting
a polygonal baseA pyramid is a geometric shape formed by connecting a polygonal base and a point called the apex by triangular faces. When unspecified the base is usually assumed to be square. One of the platonic solids, the tetrahedron, is a triangular pyramid. The square and pentagonal pyramids can also be constructed with all faces regular, and so count among the Johnson solids. All pyramids are self-dual. The volume of a pyramid is A × h / 3, where A is the area of the base and h the height from the base to the apex.
Structures
Pyramid-shaped structures were built by many ancient societies. The most famous are those in Ancient Egypt, where huge pyramids built of stone were used as tombs for pharaohs. The Great Pyramid of Giza is one of the Seven Wonders of the World, and the only one of the seven to survive into modern times. The ancient Egyptians smoothed the faces of their pyramids with gold and marble, though some of the stones used for the purpose have fallen out over the centuries.
To the south of Egypt the Nubians also built pyramids. They built far more than the Egyptians, but they are much smaller. The Nubian pyramids were constucted at a much steeper angle than Egyptian ones and were not tombs, but monuments to dead kings. Pyramids were built in Nubia up until the 300s AD.
The Mesopotamians also built pyramids called ziggurats, with a distinct series of layers. In ancient times these were brightly painted. Since they were constructed of mud-brick, little remains of them. The biblical Tower of Babel is believed to be a Babylonian ziggurat.
A number of Mesoamerican cultures also built pyramid-shaped structures. These were also usually stepped, with temples on top, more similar to the Mesoptamian ziggurat than the Egyptian pyramid. The largest pyramid by volume is that of Cholula, Mexico.
There are other pyramid-shaped ancient monuments found in Central America and parts of Asia.
Esotericism
A glass pyramid, built as a feature and as an entrance to the Louvre Art Gallery, Paris, France.
Larger version
Esotericists have attributed remarkable properties to the pyramid shape and remarkable histories to historical pyramid buildings. The Great Pyramid of Giza has attracted special interest.
The pyramid shape is alleged, among other things, to keep razor blades sharp and to prevent meat from decaying. Researchers adhering to strict scientific standards have not substantiated these claims.
Related
Hierarchical structure
The hierarchical structures of some organizations are sometimes described as pyramids.
Game show
Pyramid is the name of a game show currently in syndication.
Novel
Pyramids is a Discworld novel by Terry Pratchett; see Pyramids (Discworld).
Album
Pyramid is a concept album by the Alan Parsons Project, released in 1978.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Pyramid."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Pyramid is an American television game show where contestants try to guess a series of words or phrases, based on descriptions that were given to them, in the shortest amount of time.
Broadcast history
Pyramid has gone through several name changes over the years, with the title originally reflecting the top prize that contestants can win in that version.The show debuted as The $10,000 Pyramid on March 26, 1973. It ran for one year on CBS before it was canceled. ABC picked up the show on May 6, 1974, and in early 1976 the show was renamed The $20,000 Pyramid. A once-a-week nighttime syndicated version, called The $25,000 Pyramid, ran from 1974 until 1979. ABC's daytime version ended its run on June 27, 1980.
After a short-lived syndicated revival, known as The $50,000 Pyramid, failed in 1981, the show returned to CBS as The New $25,000 Pyramid on September 20, 1982 (the "New" was eventually dropped from the title). The last episode aired on December 31, 1987, but viewer demand caused CBS to bring the show back to its daytime schedule on April 4, 1988, after the game show Blackout failed in Pyramid's time slot. The revival only lasted until July 1 of that year, as CBS premiered its new version of Family Feud the following week.
Daily syndicated versions aired from 1985 to 1988, and again in 1991, as The $100,000 Pyramid.
In the fall of 2002 Pyramid -- without any dollar amount in the title -- returned in syndication.
Hosts
Dick Clark hosted all network versions, the syndicated $50,000 Pyramid, and the original $100,000 Pyramid. Bill Cullen hosted the 1974-79 version of The $25,000 Pyramid, and John Davidson hosted the 1991 revival of The $100,000 Pyramid.Donny Osmond hosts the current version of Pyramid.
Main game
Two teams, consisting of one celebrity player and one contestant, compete against each other. Six categories, each of which has a name pertaining to what that category is about, are placed on the pyramid-shaped game board. A contestant chooses one of those categories, and after the host explains the subject of that category, the contestant is given 30 seconds to guess seven words, phrases, or names (20 seconds for six in the current Pyramid) using clues given by his/her celebrity partner. If any descriptions were deemed illegal by the judges -- usually when all or part of the word or phrase is given -- the clue was immediately thrown out and the contestant couldn't earn any points for it.Once time has expired or the contestant guesses all of the necessary clues (whichever comes first) the opposing team follows the same procedures.
Three rounds, with two categories per round, are played in the main game. While the celebrity gives the clues and the contestant receives them in the first round, the roles are reversed in the second round -- the celebrity receives the clues. In the third round the contestant has the option to give or receive.
The winner at the end of three rounds wins the game and has a chance to play in the Winner's Circle bonus round. If the score is tied after three rounds, tiebreaker rounds are played using words that begin with a letter of the alphabet.
Bonuses
One randomly-chosen category in each game contains a hidden bonus, which allows the contestant to win additional cash or prizes if all of the clues are guessed correctly.The 1970s versions featured the "Big 7," where contestants could win $500 for seven correct answers. The 1982-88 versions featured the "7-11," where contestants won $1,100 for seven correct answers in that subject, and the "Mystery 7," where contestants won a prize for seven correct answers without receiving the subject of that category from the host. The current Pyramid features a "Super Six" in each game, where contestants win a prize for guessing all six clues correctly within the 20-second time limit.
The Winner's Circle
The Winner's Circle round, named for the circular structure around the chairs that the celebrity and contestant sat in, also features a pyramid of six subjects: three on the bottom level, two in the middle, and one at the top. Each subject, however, is revealed one at a time, and whoever gives the clues (usually the celebrity) has to give a list of objects that fits into that subject; any other descriptions or use of hand gestures results in immediate disqualification of that category. The subjects increase in difficulty toward the top of the pyramid.The contestant has 60 seconds to get to the top of the pyramid by guessing all six subjects correctly; doing so wins the grand prize, which has changed with each incarnation of the show (the current version offers $10,000 for the first time a contestant reaches the Winner's Circle and $25,000 for the second if the contestant wins the first time). Contestants also win money for each correct subject if he or she fails to win the grand prize; the amount for each correct answer has also changed over the years, but more money is given for guessing more difficult subjects.
After the Winner's Circle is finished the contestant and opponent switch celebrity partners. A half-hour episode usually consists of two main games and two Winner's Circle rounds.
Tournaments were frequently held on The $100,000 Pyramid where the three contestants who reached the top of the pyramid in the shortest amounts of time played until someone won the Winner's Circle, where $100,000 was awarded. The current Pyramid also holds periodic tournaments where a contestant could win $100,000.
External links
- SuperShow 8000: The Pyramid (an unofficial website)
- Official website of the current Pyramid
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Pyramid (game show)."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
PYRAMID | English | Promotion of Metrics | Computing, European Union |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Angularity | Pyramid, cone. |
Platonic bodies; cube, rhomboid; tetrahedron, pentahedron, hexahedron, octahedron, dodecahedron, icosahedron, eicosahedron; prism, pyramid; parallelopiped; curb roof, gambrel roof, mansard roof. | |
Assemblage | Accumulation; (store); congeries, heap, lump, pile, rouleau, tissue, mass, pyramid; bing; drift; snowball, snowdrift; acervation, cumulation; glomeration, agglomeration; conglobation; conglomeration, conglomerate; coacervate, coacervation, coagmentation, aggregation, concentration, congestion, omnium gaterum, spicilegium, black hole of Calcutta;accumulation; (store); congeries, heap, lump, pile, rouleau, tissue, mass, pyramid; bing; drift; snowball, snowdrift; acervation, cumulation; glomeration, agglomeration; conglobation; conglomeration, conglomerate; coacervate, coacervation, coagmentation, aggregation, concentration, congestion, omnium gaterum, spicilegium, black hole of Calcutta; quantity; (greatness). |
Interment | Monument, cenotaph, shrine; grave stone, head stone, tomb stone; memento mori; hatchment, stone; obelisk, pyramid. |
Sharpness | Crag, crest, arete, cone peak, sugar loaf, pike, aiguille; spire, pyramid, steeple. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Pyramid |
| English words defined with "pyramid": Berylloid, Bipyramidal ♦ Dihexagonal, dissolve ♦ frustum ♦ Homopolic ♦ Prime figure, pyramidal, pyramidal tent, Pyramidally, Pyramidical, Pyramidion, Pyramidoid, Pyramis ♦ Sakkara, Saqqara, Saqqarah, Subtrihedral ♦ truncated cone, truncated pyramid ♦ Zirconoid. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "pyramid": ANU ML ♦ bipyramid, Breidbart Index ♦ CLEOPATRA ♦ diamond pyramid hardness number, Dietary Guidelines for Americans ♦ Food guide pyramid ♦ GCC, GNU superoptimiser ♦ Kidney Tubules, Collecting ♦ Nummulite limestone ♦ pointed box, pyramid cut, Pyramidal Tracts ♦ rill stope ♦ standard pyrometric cone ♦ USSA ♦ Vickers' diamond hardness tester, Vickers hardness ♦ WP-cut. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "pyramid": Pyramidion. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Pyramid" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Manx (pyramid ), Swedish (pyramid). |
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Screenplays | Did you also hear that if you do not enter the pyramid before the sun strikes it on that very morning, that the bracelet will suck the life out of you (The Mummy Returns; writing credit: Stephen Sommers) Was it a dream where you were where you see yourself standing in sort of sun-god robes on a pyramid, with a thousand naked women screaming and throwing little pickles at you (Real Genius; writing credit: Neal Israel; Pat Proft) You could fit every pyramid on Earth inside this thing and still have room to spare (Stargate SG-1; writing credit: Robert C. Cooper; Brad Wright) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Pyramid (2002) Through the Magic Pyramid (1981) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | "Pyramid" by More ... |  | View of Pyramid Rock from Makapu Point looking north and west across Kaneohe Bay. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | "Detached Mass of the Pyramid of Cholula" in: "Researches Concerning the Institutions and Monuments of the Ancient Inhabitants of America," by Alexander von Humboldt and translated by Helen Maria Williams, 1814. Vol. II, title page. Library Call Number C/gLH919. Credit: Treasures of the Library. |  | Endangered Cui-ui fish, Pyramid Lake Indian Reservation, Washoe County, NV. Credit: Ron Nichols. |
 | Lahontan Cutthroat Trout fingerlings, hatchery on Pyramid Lake Indian Reservation, Washoe County, NV. Credit: Ron Nichols. |  | Close up of pyramid of ears of red, white and yellow corn. Credit: USDA. |
 | A young patient with rheumatic fever on the terrace of the Pyramid Clinic. / WHO p. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by D. Henrioud.. |  | They could not eat a pyramid, or wear it, or live in it : not even Pharoaoh could sell it, rent it, liquidate it. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Another pyramid party. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Stone mother, near Pyramid. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Louvre pyramid through arch" by Jim Bednar Commentary: "Visitors to the Louvre, framed by archway and in front of the Pei pyramid." | "Pyramid of the Sun" by Dennis Poulette Commentary: "The pyramid of the sun in Teotihuacan, Mexico." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Play | Caption |
 | Ante; plastic; clink; pile; piling; accumulation; aggregate; aggregation; amassment; assemblage; bank; barrel; buildup; chunk; collection; conglomeration; gob; great deal; hill; hoard; hunk; jumble; lump; mass; mound; oodles; pack; peck; pyramid; quantity. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Their mad pyramid can be seen from a distance above the swarming heads |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | This approach of recommending the consumption of calcium-rich foods is consistent with current dietary guidelines (the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Food Guide Pyramid), which includes 2-3 servings per day of dairy products and 3-5 servings of vegetables. (references) | |
Business | With regard to the operational methods of companies in the industry, insurance sales forces were structured into a pyramid. (references) | |
Around 20 percent of total sales revenue comes from pyramid sales and postal orders, and 10 percent from libraries and schools. (references) | ||
Various properties, in different stages of building, are Holiday Inn Bur Dubai, Grand Hyatt, Sheraton Pyramid, Four Seasons Hotel and Park Hyatt. (references) | ||
Economic History | Egypt | The Great Pyramid, the tomb of Pharaoh Khufu (also known as Cheops), is the only surviving monument of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. (references) |
Albania | Anarchy in early 1997, as a result of the pyramid schemes, alarmed the world and prompted intensive international mediation. (references) | |
Albania | Berisha began a more deliberate program of economic and democratic reform, but progress on these issues was stalled in the mid-1990s following the collapse of several pyramid schemes. (references) | |
Political Economy | Albania | After the collapse of the pyramid schemes in 1997, Albania descended into anarchy with citizens looting weapon depots and destroying factories and businesses. (references) |
SINGAPORE | The Multi-level Marketing and Pyramid Selling (Prohibition) Act of 2000 strengthened the prohibition on most multi-level marketing arrangements. (references) | |
Trade | Albania | Albanians, generally unfamiliar with banks and distrustful of financial institutions after the 1996-97 collapse of the pyramid schemes, are wary of depositing their savings in banks. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Pyramid" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.81% of the time. "Pyramid" is used about 529 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.81% | 528 | 11,584 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.19% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 529 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| USA | Pyramid Breweries Inc. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "pyramid": age pyramid ♦ Altitude of a pyramid ♦ Axis of a pyramid ♦ demographic pyramid ♦ diamond pyramid hardness number ♦ Earth pyramid ♦ food pyramid ♦ population pyramid ♦ pyramid bugle ♦ pyramid of numbers ♦ pyramid operation ♦ pyramid plant ♦ pyramid scheme ♦ right pyramid ♦ truncate pyramid ♦ truncated pyramid. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "pyramid": pyramid-cities, pyramid-developed, Pyramid-icl, pyramid-like, pyramid-selling, pyramid-shaped, pyramid-type. | |
Ending with "pyramid": champagne-pyramid, Earth-balancing-pyramid, tall-pyramid. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
pyramid | 3,120 | great giza pyramid | 78 |
food pyramid | 2,146 | pyramid card game | 65 |
egyptian pyramid | 642 | ancient egypt pyramid | 65 |
food guide pyramid | 510 | aztec pyramid | 65 |
pyramid solitaire | 445 | population pyramid | 65 |
pyramid of egypt | 421 | pyramid energy | 64 |
pyramid collection | 367 | ca lake pyramid | 61 |
pyramid lake | 284 | mexico pyramid | 59 |
great pyramid | 263 | food guide picture pyramid | 57 |
pyramid of giza | 217 | pyramid power | 55 |
pyramid scheme | 153 | mayan pyramid | 53 |
pyramid picture | 120 | nutrition pyramid | 52 |
picture of food pyramid | 118 | mars pyramid | 52 |
pyramid solitare | 109 | pyramid brewery | 51 |
pyramid game | 102 | pyramid speaker | 51 |
food new pyramid | 101 | cheerleading pyramid | 47 |
memphis pyramid | 100 | volume pyramid | 46 |
game pyramid show | 100 | food pyramid usda | 44 |
pyramid audio | 91 | pyramid amplifier | 42 |
california lake pyramid | 81 | catalog pyramid | 41 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "pyramid"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | piramidë, shtoj (add, add to, add up, advance, append, attach, augment, compound, count in, eke out, enclose, enhance, heighten, inclose, increase, intensify, intercalate, lend, multiply, propagate, put on, raise, redouble, refill, subjoin, superinduce, supplement), ngre gradualisht, formoj piramidë. (various references) | |
Arabic | هرم (age, aged, chop, he is getting on, old man), ركام هرمي, شكل هرمي. (various references) | |
Basque | piramide. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | увеличавам постепенно, спекулирам (gamble), натрупвам (accumulate, agglomerate, amass, bank, congest, cumulate, deck, garner, heap, huddle, lumber, pile, shovel up, stack, store), закупувам, построявам (build, construct, erect, frame, make, rear, throw a bridge, upbuild), пирамида (stack), издигам (advance, build, edify, elevate, erect, exalt, heave, heft, heighten, hike, levitate, lift, make, put up, raise, rear, rose, run up, set up, swing up, throw up, upbear, uplift, upraise). (various references) | |
Chinese | 金字塔 . (various references) | |
Czech | pyramida. (various references) | |
Danish | pyramide. (various references) | |
Dutch | piramide. (various references) | |
Esperanto | piramido. (various references) | |
Farsi | هرم(هن.), رویهم انباشتن (Accumulate, Bank), شکل هرم ساختن . (various references) | |
Finnish | pyramidi. (various references) | |
French | pyramide. (various references) | |
German | Pyramide. (various references) | |
Greek | πυραμίδα. (various references) | |
Hebrew | מצובה (pile, stack), פירמידה. (various references) | |
Hungarian | piramis, gúla (stack). (various references) | |
Indonesian | piramid, limas. (various references) | |
Irish | pirimid. (various references) | |
Italian | piramide (fusee). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 金字塔 (monumental work), 角錐 , ピストン輸送 (ice axe, period, periodic, PHS portable phone, piccolo, pick, picking, pickoff play, pickup service, pilaf, pile, Pilgrim Fathers, pill, pilling, pipette, piranha, pit, pit stop, pitch, pitcher, pitcher's mound, pitching, pitching machine, pitchout, Pithecanthropus erectus, pivot, pizza, pizzicato, Pulitzer, pure, pure malt, puree, purist, Puritan, pyramid selling, pyrine, shuttle, splashing sound, stilt). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ピラミッド , きんじとう (monumental work), かくすい. (various references) | |
Korean | 피라미드 (pyramids). (various references) | |
Manx | pyramid. (various references) | |
Occitan | piramida. (various references) | |
Papiamen | piramida. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | yramidpay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | pirâmide. (various references) | |
Romanian | piramidã (sheaf, stack). (various references) | |
Russian | пирамида. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | poprimiti oblik piramide, piramida. (various references) | |
Spanish | pirámide (acid, beast, blotter acid, blue caps, blue drops, brown caps, California sunshine, green caps, hawk, microdots, orange wedges, paper acid, pink drops, purple haze, purple wedges, sunshine, the ghost, white lightning, window panes, yellow caps, yellow drops, zen). (various references) | |
Swedish | pyramid. (various references) | |
Thai | พีระมิด, ทำเป็นรูปทรงพีระมิด, การต่อตัว. (various references) | |
Turkish | piramit. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | нагромаджувати (accumulate, agglomerate, bulk, congest, crowd, stockpile), піраміда. (various references) | |
Welsh | bera (rick). (various references) | |
Yucatec | muul (hill). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | medad, metis, metitus, pyromidas. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "pyramid": pyramidal, pyramidally, pyramided, pyramidical, pyramiding, pyramids. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "pyramid": bipyramid. (additional references) | |
Words containing "pyramid": bipyramidal, bipyramids, extrapyramidal. (additional references) | |
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"Pyramid" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: phragma, pirimide, pryamid, pyaemia, pyralis, pyramd, Pyrame, Pyramide, pyriamd, pyriamid, pyrimid, pyroma, pyromid, pyrum. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "pyramid" (pronounced pi"rumud) |
| 5 | -r u m u d | Aramid. |
| 4 | -u m u d | cyanamid. |
| 3 | -m u d | humid, timid. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-i-m-p-r-y" | |
-1 letter: myriad. | |
-2 letters: dairy, diary, padri, pardi, pardy, prima, rapid, yaird. | |
-3 letters: airy, amid, amir, arid, army, damp, dram, dray, drip, maid, mair, miry, padi, paid, pair, pard, pima, pram, pray, prim, raid, rami, ramp, rimy, yard, yird. | |
-4 letters: aid, aim, air, ami, amp, arm, dam, dap, day, dim, dip, dry, imp, mad, map, mar. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-i-m-p-r-y" | |
+1 letter: lampyrid, myriapod, pyramids. | |
+2 letters: bipyramid, lampyrids, myriapods, pyramidal, pyramided. | |
+3 letters: bipyramids, hypermedia, pyramiding. | |
+4 letters: bipyramidal, hypermedias, pyramidally, pyramidical. | |
+5 letters: imponderably, praseodymium, predominancy, primordially, pyridoxamine. | |
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